Interpersonal Therapy Program

Interpersonal therapy uses a structured approach to healing your mental and behavioral health problems, such as addictions, personality disorders, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. This therapy helps you address current problems while improving your relationships. The approach proves helpful in gaining lasting addiction recovery, as it has since the 1970s.

Who Interpersonal Therapy Helps

Therapists originally used interpersonal therapy (IPT) in the treatment of depression, since most people with these mental health struggles also suffer problems in their relationships. By healing the relationships around you early in your rehab treatment today, you gain a stronger support structure for early recovery. So your rehab experience possibly starts with IPT approaches.

Beyond this relationship benefit, your interpersonal therapy program helps you handle challenges and improve your mental health throughout treatment. It resolves disputes, enables you to improve interpersonal problems, and guides you through life stage changes. It helps you overcome grief and work through attachment issues, too.

Overall, interpersonal therapy works well for depression. By modifying this approach, the therapy also works well for other mental health issues, including:

Anxiety

Disordered eating

Dysthymia

Substance abuse issues

Bipolar

Postpartum depression

Social phobia

Posttraumatic stress

How Interpersonal Therapy Works

Your interpersonal therapy works over the course of 20 weeks or less. During this time you start feeling relief from some of your symptoms. You also start working on deeper issues at a faster pace than some other therapy approaches. For reaching your goals, the therapist uses a variety of techniques, such as role play to help you change how you relate to others.

Your therapist starts your course of treatment by focusing first on the most urgent issues. Once you see early successes, this motivates you to keep going in your therapy. You also build early support through these successes, in mending damaged relationships.

IPT is adaptive. This means your therapist modifies the methods to treat your mental health concerns in individual and group therapy settings. In its versatility, IPT proves effective for many people. Furthermore, for people with depression, IPT shows equal benefits as antidepressant medication for relief of some symptoms.

In its flexibility, IPT works alone or in a mix of other therapy approaches and medications. Additionally, people with depression tend to gain the most benefit when their interpersonal therapy program includes antidepressant medication.

For IPT to work for you, you must feel motivated to change. Your therapist guides you as you look deeply at your own role in your addiction, depression, or other mental health problems. You also need to understand how interpersonal relationships work in order to heal those relationships. Ultimately, your therapist decides whether IPT suits your individual needs.

When you undergo an interpersonal therapy program, you enjoy the benefit of it being a short-term approach. This keeps you focused on your treatment and helps you stay motivated through quick benefits gained along with rehab treatment.

The Right Therapies for Your Strongest Recovery in Portland, Oregon

In Portland, OR, Crestview Recovery provides a mix of therapies and treatment approaches for your best success in recovery. When suited to your individual needs, these therapies include an interpersonal therapy program. Other programs and services of Crestview Recovery include:

To access interpersonal therapy and other therapies for your strongest addiction recovery, call Crestview Recovery in Portland, OR now at 866-262-0531. Through this one call, you access the addiction and mental health treatment you need for a better life. So call now.